Dear WeatherCat tinkerers,
I had created a custom alert for my
Outdoor cooling potential synthetic channel, but had never gotten around to writing one for when to close the windows. So I went ahead and created a custom rule and an AppleScript to generate the Growl notification. Well, the time came to close the windows and no alert. The alert definitely didn't trigger since I have it set to send the email and no email was sent either.
Here is the custom alert:
All I'm trying to do is make sure that the alert is triggered only when the temperatures are warming and thus the
Outdoor cooling potential is decreasing and this 3 test technique has worked fine for me on other custom alerts.
I found something else odd. I wanted to test if the rule was correct and ran into an odd problem. Given this rule I would need a test temperature less than 1. However, when I tried to enter a number less then 1 into the test section, it would force the number back into an integer. Here is my attempt to entire a real number:
When I try to enter a rate of change this is what happens to me:
The 0.1 is changed into a 0.
Since I couldn't get real values into the test, I changed the custom alert so that the range was between 2-0 and used 1 as my test value. The test didn't return true even if my rate of change should have caused the alert to trigger.
So I'm confused.
Do I have the logic flipped somehow? Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Cheers, Edouard